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Hi Margaret, I'm not familiar with Open Office, or other documents, being converted without authorization to Microsoft Word format. So I have a question. To open a document do you find the file then double-click it with your mouse and it opens in Word? If that's what you do and what happens then the problem is likely something called a "file association". If Word has been recently installed, reinstalled, or the the repair feature has been applied to the Microsoft Office installation then the file associations could have changed. Some Windows updates also change (set to Microsoft's preferences) file associations. To change the file association so your Open Office documents open in Write, Calc, etc... 1. Find one of your files 2. Right-click the file 3. Select the Properties item on the menu (it should be at or near the bottom) 4. In the dialog box that opens look for the "Opens with:" entry (it should be near the top) 5. To the right of "Opens with:" there is a button "Change...", click this button 6. Now you'll get a screen asking how you want to open the file, click the program you want to use 7. Then click the OK button, the list closes 8. Next click the OK button You're done. If file associations were the problem, they have just been changed to open files with the program you want them to open in. On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 5:54 PM Margaret Shearman <mashear...@ymail.com.invalid> wrote: > I have been having problems with Microsoft sort of sabotaging my > independent software and browser preferences. Just recently I noticed that > all my Open Office documents were converted to Microsoft Word without my > authorization. Is there a default word processing setting in Windows that > allows this to happen and can I change it. Or I also save to OneDrive > cloud....is this why my documents are changed? > Margaret Shearman > -- Alan Boba CISSP, CCENT, ITIL v3 Foundations 2011
